Her: Humidity

Yesterday brought great relief to us Canadians in the midst of the notoriously sweltering and muggy Maryland summers. We noticed it first thing in the morning, as we took our first step outside - "Holy crap, we can breathe! And we're not instantly sweating!" To translate, we stepped outside into a beautiful, low humidity summer day (average relative humidity of about 40% as opposed to the proceeding weeks of about 70-80% humidity). This made the entire day much more pleasant, and we found that we had so much more energy and willingness to do activities outside.

What a small and odd thing to make so much of a difference, this relative humidity. Personally, I do prefer drier climates, having been born and raised in Alberta, where umbrellas are just one of those things that you never really use and just end up collecting dust in your front closet. (Honestly, I don't think I ever regularly used an umbrella, or saw the importance of one, until I moved to Montreal, HA!). Of course, spending two summers in Alert, which you could almost call a desert (at least, before climate change), also helps to skew my opinion of this lovely weather modifier. I love the fact that you can move into the shade to find relief from the heat in Albertan summers, just open your windows at night to cool down the house, and have no real use for A/C.

I think we were laughed at when we thought of doing the same thing down here in Maryland. I think we've only opened our windows a handful of times since May, when we turned on our A/C (Ack!). We do have a patio furniture set outside, but it doesn't get used too much (I know it seems absurd to our family back in Canada that it is just too uncomfortable to eat dinner outside). Even though we're getting more acclimatised to this weather, I think we will always prefer the cold and dry over extreme heat and humidity (so Canadian of us, eh?).

Today, we're back into the standard muggy conditions of Maryland summers. Even though our relief from the low humidity of yesterday was short lived, I wanted to make sure it didn't pass without being appreciated (almost like a visit from an old friend, haha)!

Stay cool (and dry)!